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I see that they have a free version. Is this also good? I’m assuming no, but should ask anyways.

What I mean by this is that there is no choice for capitalists but participate in our economic system. If a "nice" business owner tries to be fair to their workers, give them the full value of their labor, etc., then they will be out-competed by a company that does not. As long as workers continue working for a company (no strike or anything), then the safest course for a business to take is maximum profit and wage exploitation. This way, they keep wages down, their shareholders are happy, etc. Now, there's always a balancing act they put on so that workers don't realize this, be that platitudes like game rooms at tech start-ups, all the way to traditional methods like raising wages.

Because of this, businesses will naturally gravitate toward anti-worker practice. As late-stage capitalism progresses, this becomes even more brutal. Now the biggest companies maintain their competitive advantage by lobbying, PACs, propaganda, owning the news stations. Joe Biden and Donald Trump both have lavish dinners with donors and business owners who discuss politics and national policy. And because these business owners are from Microsoft and Raytheon, they further America's goals (substitute America for any Capitalist country too). The capitalist class has centralized power because any individual in the class who tries to steer policy toward worker protections and limits on their own class are quickly out-competed.

I'm basing this analysis on some of the later chapters of Capital like Vol. 1, Ch. 25, Section 2 (I skimmed this just now to make sure I could word this response correctly). I do recommend the entirety of Capital for a scientific breakdown of worker power and commodity production. Hexbear has a reading group for the book going on now.

You say "centralized control" but that doesn't really mean anything. After all, the capitalist class already have centralized their power, and their class interests mean they structure every feature of both business and government to keep it that way. Socialism, as defined by a dictatorship of the proletariat, upends this class dynamic entirely. So no, socialism does not "require centralized control" just because a classless society would utilize central planning efficiency to meet societal goals. This is fundamentally, scientifically different from the current system of bourgeoisie control.

Unironically it's just the post sorting algorithm. It was way better before federation, although I can't put my finger on why exactly. (Not to criticize our admins and tech people who work on that stuff behind the scenes, I've also seen a ton of improvements and stuff too).

It's really good for about 10-20 hours, which is waaaaay too short for a grand strategy game. After that, every country feels too similar. There's a real problem with lack of flavor, because there are not enough unique events, mechanics, art, etc. Also, the war system was quite bad on release, but I hear it got better. All that being said, its really fun to play with your industries and trade, and it all works well and is decently intuitive. It's probably worth it on a decent sale (or pirated).

This definitely reads like a lawyer-written statement but I don't think they're lying about being anti-piracy, I kinda remember them always being cringe like that.

No. (You should read it) [The best starting point, :Stay Night, is visual novel only]

This, but I should hope that people on this site already know that Biden's getting destroyed in approval does not mean that there's any strong left in America, or that the Trump hogs haven't increased in number and fervor.

For the past couple of days I've been going to /r/politics and sorting by controversial just to see all of the articles where the libs are twisting themselves into pretzels to explain why Biden's total gonna destroy trump guys these polls are right-wing fabrications lalalalalalalalala i cant hear you

Continually proving yourself the most powerful Hexbearite, thank you for doing this.

Much appreciate the time you spent translating all that, thanks comrade.